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Application Lifecycle Management Using Visual Studio

Duration: 3 days

Our price: from £2,050 per person

Course overview:

This three-day 'all up' course provides students with the knowledge and skills to effectively use the Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) tools found in Visual Studio 2015 and the Team Foundation Server 2015 or Visual Studio Online to plan, track, design, develop, test, and deliver business value in the form of working software. The course demonstrates to developers, testers, product owners, project managers, architects, testers, and release managers the value of the various ALM features and capabilities found throughout Visual Studio. This course can be delivered using the Scrum, Agile, or CMMI process template.

Pre-Requisites:

Before attending this course, a student should have experience working on a software development team and be familiar with that team's ALM processes, practices, and tools. Additionally, students should:

Have familiarity with their development process
Have familiarity with distributed application design
Be able to read and understand C# .NET code (all source code will be provided)
Have used Visual Studio 2012, 2013, or 2015
Be able to read and understand requirements
Understand the Microsoft Windows operating system and security basics

Who Should Attend:

This course is intended for current software development professionals who are involved in building applications with Visual Studio. Regardless of the student's role, he or she will be able to learn and get hands-on experience with the ALM features in Visual Studio.

The Project Administrator role
Team project collections and team projects
Creating a team project
Configuring and managing a team project
Renaming and deleting a team project
Module 3: Planning and managing work

Process template overview
Work item types, categories, and hierarchies
Creating and managing work items
Using tags to categorize work items
Querying, charting, and reporting work items
Managing a product backlog and sprint backlog
Module 4: Version Control

Git version control system overview
TFVC version control system overview
Integration with Visual Studio
Setting up and configuring version control
Basic and advanced workflows
Branching and merging
Managing and resolving conflicts
Module 5: Collaborating as a Team